Jo Brand Quotes
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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
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I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.
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What I've learned, traveling the country and doing book signings, Mama's biscuits - you know, somebody in Montana's got their version of Mama's biscuits, somebody in California's got their version - so it made me realize that we're not as regionalized as we think we are.
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I've been doing yoga since 1980 or '81, and I've kind of developed my own routine. It's challenging and thorough, but I'm not holy about it. Sometimes I'll watch a tape of Jon Stewart's show while exercising.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.
